Elisabeth Bourquin

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Elisabeth Bourquin (born December 10, 1930 in Trogen AR ; † May 18, 1995 in St. Gallen ; resident in Sonvilier ) was a Swiss painter of the art brut and author.

life and work

Elisabeth Bourquin's parents ran a drugstore in Speicher AR . She also began an apprenticeship as a druggist, which she broke off. After that she worked as an assistant druggist in various places. In 1980 she had a complete breakdown. From 1985 until her death she lived in a home for the elderly in St. Gallen.

Between 1947 and 1980 Elisabeth Bourquin created an extensive, predominantly graphic work with religious, philosophical and time-critical content. Her work includes pencil, chalk and ink drawings, watercolors and oil paintings. "Their figures, who wriggle out of matter in suffering and pain and a thousand hardships, are the original sounds of a person in a time of industrial noise, of machine-pounding and tempo dynamics from dawn to dusk".

After 1980, Elisabeth Bourquin recorded her reflections in writing in diaries and she also edited several self-published publications.

The Museum in the warehouse thanks to the 2014 acquired collection of Mina and Joseph John in St. Gallen has the life work of Bourquin that Joseph John had purchased from their homes resolution.

Exhibitions

  • 1990 Elisabeth Bourquin. Shaped fates, museum in the warehouse, St. Gallen (solo exhibition)
  • 1997 Art Brut. Unknown acquaintances, Zurich , Ferfane's Works of Art (group exhibition)
  • 2000 My friends, the unskilled masters, Art Museum of the Canton of Thurgau , Ittingen Charterhouse (group exhibition)
  • 2001 Between heaven and today. Visions, dreams, fantasies, Kunsthaus Langenthal (group exhibition)
  • 2015 The Mina and Josef John Collection, Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen (group exhibition)

Publications

  • Confessions of an outsider painter, St. Gallen: Jovis-Verlag, 1992.
  • Monologue of a loner, St. Gallen: Jovis-Verlag, 1993.
  • The agony of a thought pattern. Visions of a loner, St. Gallen: Jovis-Verlag, 1994.

literature

  • Ursula Badrutt et al .: The Mina and Josef John Collection, Museum im Lagerhaus St. Gallen, St. Gallen 2015.
  • Josef John: My friends - the unskilled masters. Marveled - ridiculed - misunderstood, Flawil 1991 (2nd, extended edition: Weinfelden 1996)
  • Josef V. John: Insights. Fascination of folk art and naive art from Eastern Switzerland and the Lake Constance area. With contributions by Roland Inauen [et al.], Herisau : Appenzeller Verlag, 2003.
  • Simone Schaufelberger-Breguet: Elisabeth Bourquin. Designed fates, exhibition catalog, museum in the warehouse, foundation for Swiss naive art and Art brut, St. Gallen 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unproven quote on the website of the museum in the warehouse .
personal data
SURNAME Bourquin, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Art Brut artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Trogen AR
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1995
Place of death St. Gallen